Vancouver Community Network Board Meeting Minutes - October 24, 2000
Minutes of the Regular Meeting of the Vancouver Community Network, Board
of Directors, held on Tuesday, October 24, 2000 at 6:30 P.M. in the
Boardroom, 411 Dunsmuir Street, Vancouver, BC.
Present: Greg Sturk, Sujay Nazareth, Sadia Ramirez, Alison Curtis, Richard
Songhurst, Tom Hanson, Lyle Gardiner
Staff: Peter Royce, Steven Chan
Absent: Penny Goldsmith, Jonn Olldym, Richard Smith, Michael Gurstein,
Suzanne Klinga, Jason Currell
Guests: Sharlene Smith.
Chair: Alison Curtis Secretary: Sujay Nazareth
1. Sharlene introduced herself to the board as a new prospective board
member.
2. Adoption of the Agenda, M/S/C.
3. Acceptance of minutes of September 25th, 2000 meeting M/S/C
4. Having the books onsite has been working out very well. A financial
audit will be done in November. Move that Draft Financial Statements be
Accepted M/S/C The GST refund due to VCN is currently in process. The
Auditor has requested copies of all board minutes from June 1999 -
August 2000. A summarized copy of VCN's budget will be provided to
members at the AGM for their information.
5. Board liability insurance has been purchased Move to authorize $150.00
for a Volunteer party to be held on 14th November M/S/C Move to extend
Morgan's employment contract with VCN for another month, while Peter
comes back to the board with suggestions on how to best organize the
staff for maximum efficiency M/S/C. The Volnet project is slowly
getting towards it's target.There are 126 applications in with another
41 anticipated. A total of 63 organizations have been trained to date
and 26 installs completed. The first round of the CAP project is over
and we have been approved for 7 sites. Langara was not as successful as
was first thought. Only 62 memberships were taken out.
6. Motion for VCN to Endorse CAP Champions M/S/C
8. The VCN AGM will be held on November 21, 2000 at 411 Dunsmuir starting
at 7:00 PM. It will be preceded by a board meeting at 5:30 PM. Motion
to Approve Board Slate M/S/C
9. Motion to send Flowers to Penny M/S/C
Meeting was Adjourned at 8:15PM